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Drinking and Driving: A Survey of Licensed Drivers in the United States, 1986 (ICPSR 9599)

Principal Investigator(s):Snortum, John R.; Berger, Dale E.

Summary:

This data collection focuses on perceptions and experiences
regarding driving and alcohol consumption. Respondents were asked
questions about their average alcohol consumption, whether they
refrained from drinking or moderated their behavior if they knew they
would be driving, whether they ever drove while intoxicated, how many
drinks they estimated it would take to make them legally drunk as
defined by the laws of their state, whether they had been arrested for
driving under the influence of liquor during the past year, and
whether the... (more info)

This data collection focuses on perceptions and experiences
regarding driving and alcohol consumption. Respondents were asked
questions about their average alcohol consumption, whether they
refrained from drinking or moderated their behavior if they knew they
would be driving, whether they ever drove while intoxicated, how many
drinks they estimated it would take to make them legally drunk as
defined by the laws of their state, whether they had been arrested for
driving under the influence of liquor during the past year, and
whether they and their friends ever had a designated driver when they
went to a place where alcohol was served. Questions were also asked
about perceptions of other people's behavior, such as whether
designating a driver or refraining from driving after drinking is a
common practice, and whether drunk driving is viewed as a serious
offense in the community. Additional questions concerned knowledge of
local laws and penalties regarding drunk driving. Demographic
questions included age, education, family income, and whether
employed.

Access Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Snortum, John R., and Dale Berger. DRINKING AND DRIVING: A SURVEY OF LICENSED DRIVERS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1986. Santa Ana, CA: Decision/Making/Information [producer], 1986. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09599.v1

(1) This data collection is a replication of a
previous study, DRINKING AND DRIVING: A SURVEY OF LICENSED DRIVERS IN
THE UNITED STATES, 1983 (ICPSR 8356). (2) Some descriptions of recodes
of original data by the PI were lost in transmission of the data
definition statements to ICPSR. (3) The codebook is provided as a
Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed
by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader
software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to
obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.

Methodology

Sample:
The number of respondents sampled in each state was
proportional to the population of that state.

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1992-01-10

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

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